Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



A. B. KAY. Breeoh Loading Fire-Arm..

N0.109,419. Patented NOV.22, 1870.

N-PEYERS. PHOTO-UTIIDGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D G.

ALLAN B. v KAY, OF'NEWARK, NEWJERS EY,

Letters Patent No. 109,419,dated November 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREECH LOAD ING FIRE-ARMS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent end making part of the same.

I, ALLAN B. KAY, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex, have made certain Improvements in what are technically termed Cap-Guns, of which the following is aspecification. V

Theimprovementrelatcs to thcadaptation ofbrecchloading facilities to that class of fire-arms in which the explosive force of the detona'tingpowder in the cap is the exclusive propelling power to the'shot.

In providing for this object I ream out the breechend of the discharging-tube or barrel of the gun to receive a shot that requires a slight pressure to force it through the barrel, so that when the percussion cap,

with the shot laid loose .in it, is put upon the end ofthe tube, the shot is held close to the detonating powderin the cap with an air-tight joint at the breechend of the tube, the stiflhess of the spring that impels the hammer enabling me to dispense with the ordinary breech-pin.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is one manner of adaptation of the improvement to a gun-stock.

Figure 2 is a top view'of the same.

Figure 3 is the reamed breech-end of the tube or barrel with the cap and shot in position.

Fig. shows a part of a tube ordischargirig-barrel,-

a, as inSert-edjin a chamber-piece, l),'that, turning upon ajpin, '0, out upon one side of the stock, as in fig. 2, presents the breech-0nd for the reception of the cap andvthe shot on the end of the tube a. 1 Returned in the manner described, for the purpose specified and shown.

ALLAN B. KAY.

Witnesses RALPH M. PLUME, A. LINDEMAN. 

